Joomla! site syndication http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:43:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla Joomla! site syndication http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla/index.php/Latest/Welcome.html Welcome to the Cygnus-X1 Consulting web site. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our company that we hope makes it easier for you to do business with us. Cygnus-X1 Consulting Ltd was formed in December 2003, to provide independent IT Consultancy to enterprise clients of all sizes in the UK. We specialize in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and Database Design and Performance Tuning. We can also provide services in the following areas: Application Architectures PowerBuilder development (client-server, n-tier, web) Web Site Design Build If you have comments or questions about our products or services, or simply need more information and want to contact us, click on the contact button on any page within this site. Thanks for visiting! News - Latest Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:10:25 +0100 http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla/index.php/Latest/Database-Performance-Tuning.html Database Performance Tuning Performance tuning is a vital part of the management and administration of successful database systems. By setting a priority on database performance management, you can: improve customer service optimize your investment in system hardware and software prevent performance crises However, database performance tuning is technically challenging. It requires a detailed understanding of how all the components of a database system operate and interact. The documentation and tuning books provide basic guidelines only. This basic tuning information is adequate for many databases, but an increasing number of systems need to overcome complex performance problems, or need to meet extremely demanding response time requirements. News - Latest Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:32:11 +0100 http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla/index.php/General/Business-Intelligence-Feasibilty-Study.html The ProblemMany IT departments, more geared up to OLTP and operational systems, are often at a loss when asked to deliver a data warehouse by the business. Maybe they have tried to build a warehouse in the past (because they thought it is something the organisation should have), but it is under used by the business - because it doesn’t meet their needs (or the needs changed half way through development).Sometimes the user requirements can be overwhelming in their scope and vagueness, for instance the following dialogue paraphrases a discussion between a Risk department and IT in a well known bank: IT: “What do you want?” Risk: “Data for statistical analysis” IT: “What data?” Risk: “Everything - all the bank’s data, plus!” IT: “That’s a tall order, what’s your priority?” Risk: “We don’t know, we haven’t analyzed it yet!” Where do you start? Business Intelligence - General Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:43:15 +0100 http://cygnus-x1.co.uk/joomla/index.php/Joomla/Welcome.html If you've read anything at all about Content Management Systems (CMS), you'll probably know at least three things: CMS are the most exciting way to do business, CMS can be really, I mean really, complicated and lastly Portals are absolutely, outrageously, often unaffordably expensive. Joomla! is set to change all that ... Joomla! is different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, it's not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for the masses. It's licensed under the GNU/GPL license, easy to install and administer and reliable. Joomla! doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running. Content Management - Joomla Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:54:06 +0100